WhatsApp Messenger

WhatsApp LLC

About this app

WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app. It’s used by over 2B people in more than 180 countries. It’s simple, reliable, and private, so you can easily keep in touch with your friends and family. WhatsApp works across mobile and desktop even on slow connections, with no subscription fees*.

Private messaging across the world

Your personal messages and calls to friends and family are end-to-end encrypted. No one outside of your chats, not even WhatsApp, can read or listen to them.

Simple and secure connections, right away

All you need is your phone number, no user names or logins. You can quickly view your contacts who are on WhatsApp and start messaging.

High quality voice and video calls

Make secure video and voice calls with up to 8 people for free*. Your calls work across mobile devices using your phone’s Internet service, even on slow connections.

Group chats to keep you in contact

Stay in touch with your friends and family. End-to-end encrypted group chats let you share messages, photos, videos and documents across mobile and desktop.

Stay connected in real time

Share your location with only those in your individual or group chat, and stop sharing at any time. Or record a voice message to connect quickly.

Share daily moments through Status

Status allows you to share text, photos, video and GIF updates that disappear after 24 hours. You can choose to share status posts with all your contacts or just selected ones.

Use WhatsApp on your Wear OS watch to continue conversations, reply to messages, and take calls - all from your wrist. And, leverage tiles and complications to easily access your chats and send voice messages.


*Data charges may apply. Contact your provider for details.

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If you have any feedback or questions, please go to WhatsApp > Settings > Help > Contact Us

Ratings and reviews

Horrible new green colour. New emoticons are great but why not keep the old ones, also, the new ones . Please enable an option to set the skin tone for all emojis at the same time and not only one by one. You can only send a contact at a time. On new version camera sound when taking a picture why????? Pin a location manually and send is missing. Please put back the copy icon, after selecting a message, now you have to tick on the menu button each time.

It is what it is. The most popular commucation app used in my region and context. So 5 stars for allowing me to remain in touch with so many of my friends and family! The -2 stars for UX issues: • It should be more intuitive with less steps to end a call from Android's unlock screen • It is far too easy to end up in a group call without knowing it. There should be an overclear UX distinction with 1-to-1 and that already before accepting the call because it has important privacy implications.

The messaging works fine and has a nice feature set. However its only back-up solution involves mandatory usage of Google Drive. It doesn't let you use any other cloud service or even an offline copy (so you can save it yourself). This is completely unacceptable and anti-competitive, since for bigger backups the only option is to pay Google for cloud space.

What's new

• You can now edit messages up to 15 minutes after sending. Long press a message and choose ‘Edit’ to get started.
• Group chats show the profile photos of their participants.
These features will roll out over the coming weeks. Thanks for using WhatsApp!